Archiving tapes

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Tue Feb 22 15:47:22 2005

At 04:53 PM 2/21/2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
>It was created in 1985 by Electronic Arts, initially as a
>common way for game developers to transfer graphics data between
>platforms (this was before graphics standards like GIF were in wide
>use).

It's a sad day. Someone wrote an accurate description of IFF
without ever once mentioning the word "Amiga".

As I recall, Microsoft didn't start using RIFF until 1990 or so.

- John
Received on Tue Feb 22 2005 - 15:47:22 GMT